Well, I kind of stumbled into a free K9A2 Platinum. Debating now whether to pick up a Phenom II and drop my Intel or sell the motherboard and pick up a E8500 or something similar for ~180. The phenom would be faster, similar price. Selling mobo and proc on intel side will net a bit more so a 955 is possible for the phenom.

Or I could wait for the 955 to drop and pick up a cheap 920 or 940BE when people get rid of them? Just the possibilities.

I'd go with the Phenom II 955, your CPU cooler should take care of it when overclocking, but make sure you have an AMD retention thingy for it. PII 955 will be a nice upgrade from your E6750, and would beat an E8500 easily, especially when overclocked.

720BE is a brilliant chip, I love mine. I definitely wouldn't get a 940, 955 would be a better choice as it's both DDR3 and DDR2 support so if you got a DDR3 board later on you wouldn't need to change your chip as well.

I was going to suggest the x3 720 too I would suggest you get the same HD of one the you already have and RAID 0 them so your load times are faster xD I would sugegst that you sell that board to buy a better board for cheaper... like this one

If you do get the mobo I suggested (has SB750) it whill enable the possibility of unlocking the 4th core! just get the right batch number of the 720BE (I think it's 0940 or something)

I was going to suggest the x3 720 too I would suggest you get the same HD of one the you already have and RAID 0 them so your load times are faster xD I would sugegst that you sell that board to buy a better board for cheaper... like this one

If you do get the mobo I suggested (has SB750) it whill enable the possibility of unlocking the 4th core! just get the right batch number of the 720BE (I think it's 0940 or something)

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Only issue I have with that is, doubt there'll be much interest in the board, it's not really known for it's overclocking potential, it just appears to be a somewhat generic board.

get the biostar I suggested... 105$ no? anyways, only MSI and Biostar can unlock 4th core I believe... get the 720BE at MAX 140$ shipped... or else if you can't sell your board, go for 940BE, a faster way...

but IMO, if you can sell your board for 105$ and getting the Biostar for that much (theres also a 10$ mail in rebate so 95$ at the end) and getting the 720BE (or 940BE) used or new is your best choice

get the biostar I suggested... 105$ no? anyways, only MSI and Biostar can unlock 4th core I believe... get the 720BE at MAX 140$ shipped... or else if you can't sell your board, go for 940BE, a faster way...

but IMO, if you can sell your board for 105$ and getting the Biostar for that much (theres also a 10$ mail in rebate so 95$ at the end) and getting the 720BE (or 940BE) used or new is your best choice

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I bought cdawalls 720 that unlocks just fine. Clocks to 4ghz on water etc etc. The Arekieh unlocked the 4th core with that exact motherboard and clocked to 3.6ghz no problem with the 4th core unlocked.

PII 955 sucks for it's price... who pays 60$ more than a PII 940BE for similar performance? and if you go DDR3 you paying over 100$ more than PII 940BE

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The processor has been out for less than a week so obviously the prices have not stablised. Give it a few weeks for retailers to apply AMDs recommended price guidelines before making judgement on prices.

I talk for the present... if you want to buy now, don't go 955... BUT you can wait and hopefully prices will fall...

IMO 720BE is always the best way to go... if you want 4 cores, you can either get all you need for unlocking 4th core and give it a gamble (my choice) or just go 940BE and fudge the DDR3 xD

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I agree the 955 is priced too high at the moment, but it was expected. I can remember people complaining on the release of the 940 BE when retailers did not honour AMDs guidelines, now everyone is loving the prices. Anyone that buys hardware on release, whether a GPU, CPU, memory etc deserve to get their pockets burnt.